Japan's Naomi Osaka won in straight sets on her highly-anticipated return to court at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday, while world number one Ashleigh Barty crashed out in the first round.

Bangladesh's shooter Abdullahel Baki finished 41st among 47 competitors in the 10m air rifle event of the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday morning.

Captain Aaron Finch will return to Australia to try to be fit for the Twenty20 World Cup after a knee injury ended his involvement in the current tour of the West Indies and the up-coming series in Bangladesh.

Half-centuries from Nicholas Pooran and Jason Holder guided the West Indies to a series-levelling four-wicket win the second One-Day International of the three-match series against Australia at Kensington Oval in Barbados on Saturday.

Prof Jahanara Begum, a former state minister for cultural affairs and BNP vice chairman, died of cardiac arrest in the city yesterday. She was 79.

Bangladesh have been the superior side in their ongoing tour of Zimbabwe and the results spoke volumes of the Tigers’ authority. The only hitch along the way was the 23-run defeat in the second T20I on Friday that saw Zimbabwe level the three-match series.

Archers Ruman Sana and Diya Siddiqui were eliminated from the pre-quarterfinal stage of recurve mixed event of the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday morning.

With no immediate decision from Cricket Australia over their upcoming tour of Bangladesh after the second ODI between Australia and West Indies at Barbados was cancelled due to a non-playing member of the Windies staff testing positive for Covid-19, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) still remains hopeful to host the Aussies in scheduled time.

Bangladesh’s wayward and inconsistent performance in all three departments led to a 23-run defeat for the visitors in the second T20I as the hosts Zimbabwe made a comeback to level the three-match T20I series in Harare yesterday.

Thirty-seven people have been rescued from a migrant boat with 45 people on board that sank south of Turkey, and Turkish naval ships and an aircraft are continuing search and rescue operations, the defence ministry said on Friday.

The government's digital cattle market launched this year, www.digitalhaat.net, has seen a record sale this year worth 2,424 crore BDT. According to the latest data from digitalhaat.net, a total of 3,49,428 animals have been sold through the online platform across the country ahead of this year's Eid-ul-Azha. 

Zimbabwe have won the toss and elected to bat first against Bangladesh in the second T20I at Harare today. The Tigers lead the series 1-0 following their eight-wicket victory in the first T20I yesterday.

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Mushfiqur Rahim’s participation in the five-match T20I series at home against Australia is still under a cloud of doubt as the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) hold talks with Cricket Australia (CA) over the matter.

Country's top archers Ruman Sana and Diya Siddique got off to a fine start on the opening day of Tokyo Olympic Games as they finished 17th and 36th respectively among 64 competitors in their Recurve Individual events in Japan this morning.

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) was hopeful of the upcoming home series against Australia taking place despite the Australian media saying otherwise. Reports today said that Australia's tours of Windies and Bangladesh were in doubt after the second ODI between Australia and West Indies at Barbados was cancelled due to a Windies support staff testing positive for Covid-19.

Websites of several airlines, banks and technology companies including Delta Air Lines, Costco Wholesale Corp and American Express were facing outages on Thursday.

Fifties from Soumya Sarkar and Mohammad Naim during a record opening T20 stand for Bangladesh, helped Tigers chase down Zimbabwe's 152 to win by eight wickets at Harare today. Naim provided the finishing touch with a 51-ball 63, laced with six fours as Bangladesh went 1-0 up in the series in what was the Tigers' 100th T20I match.

Shoriful Islam made crucial breakthroughs as Bangladesh fought back to bowl Zimbabwe out for 152 in the first T20 at Harare today. The pacers were all among the wickets with Mustafizur Rahman bagging three while Shoriful and Mohammad Saifuddin bagged two each.

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